Books
The Peaceable Kingdom
Shruti Ravindran
Ironically enough, Steven Pinker’s peace theory is super controversial
Missing the Plot
Kunal Basu’s talent as a novelist lies well hidden in the complex maze he wanders through in this new book
Don’t Say Goodbye Yet
Not after you made us wait 35 years. Not after this thrilling new collection of poems, subtle and intricate and so mature. Not just yet, Adil Jussawalla
Bombay in His Veins
Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood
The Poetry of the Unsettled
A protagonist of great sensitivity and disaffection earns debut novelist Teju Cole formidable comparisons
Rhythm and Blues
Jeet Thayil is a fine poet, and you see his talent in Narcopolis. But this is performance poetry masquerading as a novel
A Murder Analysed, A City Revealed
Journalist Meenal Baghel manages to make a thrilling read of one of the most over-reported crimes of our times, widening its scope to offer a portrait
A Mixed-Up Mills & Boon
The Harlequin formula is ‘hot boy falls for curvy girl and live fuzzily ever after’. Aastha Atray Banan’s attempt to bring in life after romance pops the glorious mirage that M&B entitles us to
Love, Sex Aur Maafi
In this 18th century erotic poem banned by the British, the courtesan Muddupalani gives us Radha, a feminist and sexual woman in rage over Krishna’s ‘betrayal’
Familiar Sorts
In her latest collection of stories, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala writes of people you feel you already know. In her assured hands, that may not be a bad thing
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